MaGNIFCAT: NOVEMBER THE COVER OF THE MONTH We are all “other Christs” for each other by Pierre-Marie Dumont Magnificat The cover of the month Jean Bourdichon (c. 1457–1521) surely could have taken …More
MaGNIFCAT: NOVEMBER THE COVER OF THE MONTH
We are all “other Christs” for each other by Pierre-Marie Dumont
Magnificat The cover of the month
Jean Bourdichon (c. 1457–1521) surely could have taken his place in the Pantheon of the ten greatest French painters, but alas, his works did not withstand the injuries of time. To the point where, for lack of remaining works to be seen, he fell into almost complete oblivion.
Indeed, the only surviving great work that can be attributed to him with certainty is a sumptuous manuscript decorated with miniatures, Les Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany, Queen of France, which he finished around 1508. The cover of this month’s issue of Magnificat reproduces one of the illustrations of this masterpiece of the art of illumination.
Here, then, as seen by Bourdichon, is the famous scene in which the legionary Martin, in the winter of a.d. 334, gave part of his cloak to a beggar. Sulpicius Severus (363-410?), his biographer, informs us that the following …More
We are all “other Christs” for each other by Pierre-Marie Dumont
Magnificat The cover of the month
Jean Bourdichon (c. 1457–1521) surely could have taken his place in the Pantheon of the ten greatest French painters, but alas, his works did not withstand the injuries of time. To the point where, for lack of remaining works to be seen, he fell into almost complete oblivion.
Indeed, the only surviving great work that can be attributed to him with certainty is a sumptuous manuscript decorated with miniatures, Les Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany, Queen of France, which he finished around 1508. The cover of this month’s issue of Magnificat reproduces one of the illustrations of this masterpiece of the art of illumination.
Here, then, as seen by Bourdichon, is the famous scene in which the legionary Martin, in the winter of a.d. 334, gave part of his cloak to a beggar. Sulpicius Severus (363-410?), his biographer, informs us that the following …More